I'm about to get a ps3 and friend wants me to play... How much are dlcs If I buy the game new from gamestop will I'be premium? how much is legendary How much will I have to buy for full game experience... If I buy legendary 1 month and download all dlcs and go back to platinum will I still have all dlcs I downloaded? Thanks

Free to play - You are limited to 1500 bucks, which is really only enough to buy a basic a few weapons during your level 1-30 'solo campaign' adventure.

Most of the equipment you get simply from completing campaign missions is enough to keep you stat padded to keep going, and the only things you'll need to really buy from the headquarters vendors are two pvp rings and a level 14 and level 24ish pvp weapon, since the pvp weapon stats are better than the ones you get from campaign rewards until you hit that end-game level 30 content. Free to play cannot create a league, but can join into one. Lastly, free to play users cannot trade money or items with other players. Essentially F2P is designed for people to test run a VERY LARGE amount of the game for free to see if they want to subscribe or start grabbing DLC. It's also designed for people that only casually play the game, since if you sub you are forcing yourself into a commitment to keep paying, even on days where you don't have the time or won't be able to. Do not believe you can use the auction house to sell items, but can still buy items within your means (not a lot sells for 1500 or less, to be honest)

You are switched to premium automatically if you purchase ANY game content that, in total, combines up to five bucks. This increases your cash cap to 2000 (still not a whole lot), and now allows you to trade physical items, but not cash. At this point what people do is stock up on items they can sell to keep cash in their bank, liquidating any physical stuff you can. Most people just stock up o the level 30 sodas and sell them after repairs to get their cash back. Premium members, far as I know, still cannot createa league, but can join into one. Also increases your character roster from 6 to 8, if I recall correctly. You also get a few more inventory slots, bank slots, and I believe you can use the auction house to sell items.

Legendary - full commitment. Being legendary gets rid of the cash cap entirely, and removes the cap on created characters, upping it to 12. You get the full amount of inventory, storage bank, and auction house sell slots, and >ALL< the DLC packs are unlocked for open use. You do not have to purchase the DLC separately if you subscribe; all those missions give you access. You also get to create characters with the DLC-only powers, so you can create a green or yellow lantern (hero/villain side), an earth power character and electricity power character. You also gain access to the vault daily, instead of once a week. Legendary also unlocks the ability to earn trophies, which free players are locked out from.

*To clarify on that, if you're free to play you can still meet the criteria for getting a trophy but will not unlock it. It will be ready to unlock once you subscribe. I cannot say this is true for the DLC though, since the DLC is wholly purchasable separately, i'd imagine the DLC trophies would trigger even if you're free to play.

If you do not wish to every pay a subscription for the game then you're going to want to look at the separate DLC packs to give you access to those special missions and higher quality/more easily earned gear. Having the DLC mission access means gearing up takes a considerably less amount of time to gear up. The actual finale mission for the Braniac story arch is not accessible with free to play and requires access to The Battle for Earth DLC. There are two missions included in that pack, raida, that finish up the Braniac story; Gates of Tartarus and Prime Battlegrounds, respectively. (Prime Battlegrounds is a straight up street fight with Braniac in the streets of Gotham, in one of the bottled areas, while Gates is a quick incursion at Wonder Woman's homeland, Themyscira)

Regardless of your subscription status, there are other DLC add ons that benefit everybody. The marketplace sells permanent increases for your inventory slots, bank and auction slots. These are account-specific and carry over to every character on your account, regardless of if they are hero or villain faction. I'd suggest maxing out your personal inventory first, as you may want to carry a dps set of armor and support role armor (tank, troller, healer specific), and may also want to carry a PVP suit of armor if you plan on roaming around the PVP server.

Another thing you may want to look at is the robot pterodactyl transformation trinket. It's on the marketplace for five bucks and allows you to transform into a robo-dactyl with flight. While it doesn't have any attacks, having the ability to transform and fly will help with exobyte hunting on rooftops, collecting briefing, investigations and the gold collection icons scattered about the world, and will give you the opportunity to go airborn and scope out the city and really learn where everything is much more quickly. This also unlocks for every character tied to your account, so it's all the more effective if you're using acrobatics and superspeed characters. The transform trinket also works during races and can greatly help hitting those hard-to-hit race markers. Just note though, that bird mode lets you fly, but doesn't give you super speed flight. None of the movement-altering trinkets and items in the game give you super movement. Some kind of balancing issue. I dunno.

*Note about the DLC packsIf you buy the DLC packs it unlocks permanently. If you never buy them individually but got legendary instead, you unlock the DLC only while your subscription is active. You will have to decide if the weight of one choice is greater than the other - if you will stay subscribed long enough to get all you can from the DLC, or if you want to keep the dlc missions on the table at all times regardless if you expect to stop spending on the game at some point (financial problems or what have you).

At the moment, the Hand of Fate content and Battle for Earth content rewards Marks of War, which are used to buy Tier 4 top-level armor. All the other DLC rewards Marks of Triumph, which is used to buy Tier 1-Tier 3 gear. Also note that the DLC is progression based, so even if you buy the DLC you will >NOT< be able to readily run the missions until your combat rating meets the requirement. In order of progression, the DLC missions are:

Note* The Hand of Fate currently features 'operations' which is just a label stolen from other MMOs. The missions themselves require a few open-world group tasks to be completed before you eventually have to fight a raid-level boss in the open world. Due to the PS3s limitations on memory, however, having more than 8 players tackling the open world boss can result in freezing (no more memory) and missing out on loot. As a result the developers are going to remove the boss fight from the open world and toss them into their own instance. That should take place in the next game update (2-3 months from now)

Also note that it's very easy to barnstorm through this content within 1-2 months, depending on how many hours you sacrifice playing the game. If you also purchase replay badges to rerun some of the more easy T3 alerts alike Gotham Subway and Shady Nightclub, for example, you can much more quickly gear up. Grinding replays on T4 content will ultimately mean you have nothing left to do afterwards, progression wise, aside from accomplishing various feats to boost your total skill points.A problem the game currently faces are people splurging on replay badges, getting their fill, and quitting the game until late next year when Tier 5 content is finally introduced. This has torn apart leagues and has drained the game of experienced players. While it's not too difficult to find content groups during prime hours of the day, if you play during the graveyard shift you're essentially screwed - even moreso if you plan to play a villain character as there is a HUGE faction imbalance there. The player hero/villain ratio is heavily skewed in the heroes favor by 10/1. It can be pretty difficult getting group missions done on the villain side as a result, in which case i'd recommend heading to the official site's web forum and looking for the league recruitment section to see if you can find an active group that works during the times you play.

Raijin,Oh my lord, i wish all forum posters wre like you, you answered my question and about twenty others that would have been raised! Thank you ever so much. I had noticed the disparity between amounts of heroeas/villians, seems odd. Suppose everyone wants to be heroes

There seems to be an issue with SOE not really giving a rats ass about the villain side campaign. A lot of the end game missions are copy paste hero missions with very small tweaks so they ake 'some' sense for the villain side. On top of that, DC's villain roster can be a bit derpy and/or boring when mishandled. The game director also seems to want to keep the game in the light hearted 'campy' tone which only further degrades the possibility of true villainy. Only recently have they ventured a bit darker, with Joker killing people in a cutscene (Last laugh) and with the dead body that's been bagged at the start of the Hand of Fate content.

With the new 52 reboot brinking a more modern and darker tone, i'm thinking SOE is going to have to force themselves into altering the game design when the next big bad is added to the game. It would appear the new story would involve Future Lex going back in time to mess with the heroes origins, which could very well be the DCUO version of the Flashpoint event which may or may not lead into a much inspired 52 DCUOboot.

No, it's tied to the specific PSN account. In this case it would be better to give your son or sibling/etc one of your empty character slots on the same account so they have access to the DLC.

If you intend to play together and they have to use their own PSN id, then they will need the DLC separately for their account. That also means you'd need 2 subscriptions, if you go the sub route.

They can still play the core game (sans an ending) on a free account, but in order to use the DLC you'll both need access to it. Think of it this way, if you consider the price of a full PS3 game, maybe spend about 60 bucks worth of cash on marketplace stuff, be it DLC or a legendary sub for several months. I imagine the DLC packs are the better route here unless you plan on upkeep for both subs. Depends on the financial situation, really.

In my case I have 2 accounts I use for the game. My main has all the DLC unlock separately but still goes legendary for cash access and the occasional power respec token. On my second PS3 I had my alt that would go legendary for a month while I decided to use it. Don't use it often so no need to keep resubbing. It's there when I need it, and goes dark when I dont.